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Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching project.

Aaron Pont is Project Leader/Educational Designer with Flex:Ed at the Canberra Institute of Technology where he oversees work on Edu-Versal Studios, a virtual world learning environment that allows students to ‘visit’ a nursing ward. Aaron talks about the development of Edu-Versal Studios and the likely effect of virtual worlds on the future of education.

An executive needs to structure the enterprise to do the right thing, and a manager needs to insure that this directive is carried out in the right way. The first question any institution needs to ask itself is that of the executive, says McDonough + Partners' William McDonough. If the organization is doing the right thing, it is indicative of its effective and thoughtful leadership.

Nick Earl, General Manager of Electronic Arts Redwood Shores Studio, talks about how the General Manager's job is to run one of EA's six studios, which are the places where they actually build the product. The GM administers and manages the portfolio of products at the site. Each product is then run by an executive producer. The executive producers are entrepreneurs in their own right and the products are managed almost like independent ventures.

What is a social entrepreneur? The creator of the field of social entrepreneurship describes how social entrepreneurs work, how together they are transforming how almost everything works in society. He also illuminates how everyone can contribute in many different ways.

At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful vision for sustainable commerce.

What are the keys to a sustainable future? Three major keys are innovation, synergy, and savings. It means doing more with less. Synergy is sustainability in practice. Is your organization developing and renewing green sustainability issues to improve production, employee work life, and to meet future laws and legislation? The Sustainable Pract.

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In this talk, Negroponte discusses the three modern changes that have defined the telecommunications industry-digitization, the development of packets, and the move to wireless-and ponders "what's next" for the industry that represents 5% of the world GDP.